GEORGE

See also:

• ANTHONY, SAINT
• ANTHONY, SUSAN BROWNELL (1820-1906)

ANTHONY

See also:

• DENISON
• GEORGE ANTHONY DENISON (1805-1896)
• DENISON, GEORGE TAYLOR (1839- )

DENISON (1805-1896)  , English church-man, brother of John Evelyn Denison (1800-1873; speaker of the House of Commons 1857-1872; Viscount Ossington), was horn at Ossington, Notts, on the 11th of December 1805, and educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford . In 1828 he was elected fellow of Oriel; and after a few years there as a tutor, during which he was ordained and acted as curate at Cuddesdon, he became rector of Broadwindsor, Dorset (1838) . He became a prebendary of Sarum in 1841 and of Wells in 1849 . In 1851 he was preferred to the valuable living of East Brent, Somerset, and in the same year was made archdeacon of Taunton . For many years Archdeacon Denison represented the extreme High Tory party not only in politics but in the Church, regarding all " progressive " movements in education or theology as abomination, and vehemently repudiating the " higher criticism " from the days of Essays and Reviews (186o) to those of Lux Mundi (189o) . In 1853 he resigned his position as examining chaplain to the bishop of Bath and Wells owing to his pronounced eucharistic views . A suit on the complaint of a neighbouring clergyman ensued and after various complications Denison was condemned by the archbishops' court at Bath (1856); but onappeal the court of Arches and the privy council quashed this judgment on a technical plea . The result was to make Denison a keen champion of the ritualistic school . He edited The Church and State Review (1862-1865) . Secular state education and the " conscience clause " were anathema to him . Until the end of his life he remained a protagonist in theological controversy and a keen fighter against latitudinarianism and liberalism; but the sharpest religious or political differences never broke his personal friendships and his Christian charity . Among other things for which he will be remembered was his origination of harvest festivals .

He died on the 21st of

March 1896 .